[1] There are reports that the founder of Methodism John Wesley preached from the oak,[2] with the 18th century farming population meeting there regularly.

The small street named Wesleyan Place, off Highgate Road, was the original site of a very early Methodist chapel that was connected with the famous oak.

[4] Situated as it is in the southern part of Hampstead Heath, the area was, in years past, referred to as nearby South End Green.

Plans were drawn up for elegant streets radiating from Lismore Circus but after two railway lines were extended across the area in the 1860s the first buildings were two- and three-story cottages, based around present-day Oak Village.

The area was for many years rather remote from the rest of the wider Kentish Town development and streets were not fully completed and the housing stock was regarded as relatively sub-standard.

[9] The present-day school was subsequently built on the site, and the damaged Victorian houses opposite were torn down to make way for the more modern estates that are seen today.

For parliamentary purposes, Gospel Oak is part of the wider Holborn and St Pancras constituency currently held by the Prime Minister, Labour's Sir Keir Starmer.

The name of the current Gospel Oak station in Mansfield Road/Gordon House Road has changed over the years.

The London Buses route 1 bus runs from Pimlico to Southend Green of Hampstead Heath.